Thank you for reading the September 2022 issue of This Awful Awesome Life. Previous issues are available to read on our website. Go to thisawfulawesomelife.com and start scrolling or you can enter specific search criteria.
Next month we will be celebrating Breast Cancer Awareness Month and of course, Halloween.
Lilly Kauffman, Orlando Bartro, Linda Cahill, and I will be back with interesting articles and recipes for you. Our vegetable for October is spinach. Whether you prefer it raw in a salad, steamed or popping out of a can like Popeye, we’ll have recipes you’re sure to enjoy.
We’ll have our October quiz, reading recommendations, streaming article, and our new series, “Dare to Believe” and “What’s in a Word?”
I haven’t made my October book selection yet, but I have so many excellent works to choose from I’m not worried. Perhaps it will be Dave Grohl’s memoir, The Storyteller.
Until next month,
Stay safe. Stay well. You are important, and you are loved.
All my best,
Fran
Answers to the September 2022 Quiz: How Do You Really Feel About Censorship?
1. "Where they have burned books, they will end in burning human beings." Heinrich Heine
2. “Information is the currency of democracy.” Thomas Jefferson
3. “When decorum is repression, the only dignity free people have is to speak out.” Abbie Hoffman
4. “Don't join the book burners... Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book." Dwight D. Eisenhower
5. "Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail. In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas. The source of better ideas is wisdom. The surest path to wisdom is a liberal education." Alfred Whitney Griswold
6. It’s not just the books under fire now that worry me. It is the books that will never be written. The books that will never be read. And all due to the fear of censorship. As always, young readers will be the real losers.” Judy Blume
7. "If large numbers of people believe in freedom of speech, there will be freedom of speech, even if the law forbids it. But if public opinion is sluggish, inconvenient minorities will be persecuted, even if laws exist to protect them." George Orwell
8. Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so, too." Voltaire
9. “The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame." Oscar Wilde
10. “There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.” Ray Bradbury
11. "There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them. " Joseph Brodsky
12. “Censorship feeds the dirty mind more than the four-letter word itself would.” Dick Cavett
13. “Books and ideas are the most effective weapons against intolerance and ignorance." Lyndon Baines Johnson
14. “Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads." George Bernard Shaw
15. "Censorship is telling a man he can't have a steak just because a baby can't chew it." Mark Twain
16. “As it is an ancient truth that freedom cannot be legislated into existence, so it is no less obvious that freedom cannot be censored not existence.” Dwight D. Eisenhower
17. “Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.” Benjamin Franklin
18. “Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions. It is the one un-American act that could most easily defeat us." Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas
19. “Censorship reflects a society’s lack of confidence in itself. It is a hallmark of an authoritarian regime.” Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart
20. “You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.” Ray Bradbury
21. “Every burned book enlightens the world.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
22. “What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books.” Sigmund Freud
23. Censorship is the commonest social blasphemy because it is mostly concealed, built into us by indolence, self-interest, and cowardice.” John Osborne
24. “There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but one must take it because it’s right.” Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
25. The gains in education are never really lost; books may be burned, and cities sacked, but truth like the yearning for freedom, lives in the hearts of humble men.” Franklin Delano Roosevelt